People motivated by mastery goals __________than those driven by performance goals
A. achieve their goals more often
B. tend to retain the skill they learn longer
C. have greater difficulty with specific achievements
D. tend to avoid whatever could lead to failure more
B
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Research on cognitive dissonance CONTRADICTS which of the following?
a. A group that leans one direction on an issue will get even more extreme after discussing it. b. To change people's behavior, you have to change their attitudes first. c. People have to satisfy their basic needs before they work on self-actualization. d. High self esteem leads to better performance.
In Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children employ __________, which refer(s) to organized ways to think about or act on objects.
A. social learning B. schemes C. shaping D. operant conditioning
The idea that nature and culture changed together and shaped each other is known as ____
a. cooperation b. competition c. evolution d. co-evolution
Which of the following statements is true about age differences in children's research risks?
A) Young children are more susceptible than older children to procedures that threaten the way they view themselves. B) Adolescents may be better than younger children at sizing up and rejecting researchers' deceptive evaluations. C) Receiving false negative feedback tends to be more stressful for very young children than for school-age children. D) Children in middle childhood, but not adolescents or young children, feel external pressure to continue with a study.